Krasikov was one of the eight Russians released during the prisoner exchange.
Russia has admitted that the assassin released by Germany in a historic prisoner exchange on Thursday Vadim Krasikov is an officer employed by the Russian security service FSB. The confession denies that the murder of a Chechen refugee he carried out in Berlin in 2019 was ordered by Russia.
At the same time, Russia hinted that Krasikov was connected to the president Vladimir Putin to a personal guard, says The Guardian.
– Krasikov is an employee of the FSB, a spokesman for the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov told reporters, adding that Krasikov had “worked with some of the people who work on the president’s security detail.”
Krasikov was one of the eight Russians released during the prisoner exchange.
He returned to Moscow on Thursday as part of a complex swap deal that freed 16 people from Russian custody, including a US Russia correspondent Evan Gershkovich as well as several Russian opposition politicians.
A total of 24 prisoners were released on Thursday from Russia and the United States to their home countries or Germany. Five countries were involved in the operation.
According to the AFP news agency, it was one of the largest prisoner exchanges between the West and the East since the Cold War.